IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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That works for me!
Been on ancestry.com....my family is straight Negro all the way (almost lol) up the tree. Census records and military records are no joke.
NYT: What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019
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Been on ancestry.com....my family is straight Negro all the way (almost lol) up the tree. Census records and military records are no joke.
CUT THE CHECK
xoxodede
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On Nova Scotians and other Maroons aka Runaways -- who left the U.S. will have to be able to show their ancestors were enslaved at one point.
I would recommend them to search Estate/Will and Probate Records and find their ancestors there. That will be hard -- but not impossible.
They can start on Familysearch.org -- and state archives websites. Also, work with Nova Scotia genealogists to help them get the records needed.
For example - here is TN and Alabama records:
Tennessee Probate Court Books, 1795-1927 — FamilySearch.org
Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976 — FamilySearch.org
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The moment you mention cash payout, you immediately lose cacs...
Unfortunately there’s a large contingency of ADOS that dont realize you need cac support to pass any form of legislation in this country. We should really move away from the “fukk you, pay me” approach.
But ADOS Ancestors are owed money too breh. It doesn't need to be a lump sum. We will take a weekly, monthly, hell, even a yearly check; like owed back taxes. It can be stocks, bonds, gold, trust, funds, trust funds, Bitcoin.We need money to stimulate our new economy circulating the black dollar, then eventually, the rest of the US economy will receive a supernatural boost like post WW2 USA.
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Sounds good can't wait till we all get it on code
List of companies that profited from the black American slave trade:
1. AIG – bought American General Financial which owns US Life Insurance Company. US Life used to insure the lives of slaves.
2.Aetna – insured the lives of slaves in the 1850s.
3. Bank of America – grew in part out of the Bank of Metropolis, which accepted slaves as collateral.
4.Brooks Brothers – got its start making clothes for slaves
5. Brown University – named for the Brown brothers who gave money to the university. Two were slave traders, another ran a factory that used slave-grown cotton. University Hall was built in part by slave labour.
6. CSX – rented slaves to build rail lines.
7.Fleet Boston – grew out of Providence Bank, founded by one of the Brown brothers (see Brown University above), a slave trader who owned slave ships. The bank made money from the slave trade. Providence, Rhode Island was the home port for many slave ships.
8.Harvard Law School – endowed with money from Isaac Royall, an Antiguan slave owner and sugar grower.
9.JP Morgan Chase – made a fortune from the slave trade. Predecessor banks (Citizens Bank, Canal Bank in Louisiana) accepted slaves as collateral, taking possession of 1,250 slaves from owners who defaulted on loans.
10. New York Life – insured slaves. Of its first 1,000 insurance polices, 339 were policies on slaves.
11.Norfolk Southern – the Mobile & Girard, now part of Norfolk Southern, rented slaves to work on the railroad. Central of Georgia, also now part of the company, owned slaves.
12.Tiffany’s – founded with profits from a cotton mill in Connecticut that processed slave-grown cotton.
13.USA Today – its parent company, Gannett, had links to slavery.
14.Wells Fargo – Georgia Railroad & Banking Company and the Bank of Charleston owned or accepted slaves as collateral. They later became part of Wells Fargo by way of Wachovia. (In the 2000s Wells Fargo targeted blacks for predatory lending.)
15.Lehman Brothers-traced it’s beginnings to cotton trading in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1850s
(to be continued)
1. AIG – bought American General Financial which owns US Life Insurance Company. US Life used to insure the lives of slaves.
2.Aetna – insured the lives of slaves in the 1850s.
3. Bank of America – grew in part out of the Bank of Metropolis, which accepted slaves as collateral.
4.Brooks Brothers – got its start making clothes for slaves
5. Brown University – named for the Brown brothers who gave money to the university. Two were slave traders, another ran a factory that used slave-grown cotton. University Hall was built in part by slave labour.
6. CSX – rented slaves to build rail lines.
7.Fleet Boston – grew out of Providence Bank, founded by one of the Brown brothers (see Brown University above), a slave trader who owned slave ships. The bank made money from the slave trade. Providence, Rhode Island was the home port for many slave ships.
8.Harvard Law School – endowed with money from Isaac Royall, an Antiguan slave owner and sugar grower.
9.JP Morgan Chase – made a fortune from the slave trade. Predecessor banks (Citizens Bank, Canal Bank in Louisiana) accepted slaves as collateral, taking possession of 1,250 slaves from owners who defaulted on loans.
10. New York Life – insured slaves. Of its first 1,000 insurance polices, 339 were policies on slaves.
11.Norfolk Southern – the Mobile & Girard, now part of Norfolk Southern, rented slaves to work on the railroad. Central of Georgia, also now part of the company, owned slaves.
12.Tiffany’s – founded with profits from a cotton mill in Connecticut that processed slave-grown cotton.
13.USA Today – its parent company, Gannett, had links to slavery.
14.Wells Fargo – Georgia Railroad & Banking Company and the Bank of Charleston owned or accepted slaves as collateral. They later became part of Wells Fargo by way of Wachovia. (In the 2000s Wells Fargo targeted blacks for predatory lending.)
15.Lehman Brothers-traced it’s beginnings to cotton trading in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1850s
(to be continued)
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Slave reparations case dismissed
(2002) -A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by descendants of slaves against corporations they say profited from slavery, saying the plaintiffs had established no clear link to the companies they targeted.
The court still left the door open for further litigation.
But the ruling dismissed the case “without prejudice,” meaning the slave descendants seeking reparations from U.S. companies are allowed to file an amended complaint.
The lawsuit was first filed in U.S. District Court in New York in 2002 and later moved to Chicago. The suit names companies like the Lehman Brothers brokerage firm, Aetna Insurance and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, saying they or their corporate ancestors made money off slavery.
Lawsuits filed around the country seeking reparations for slavery have been combined into a single court action.
(2002) -A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by descendants of slaves against corporations they say profited from slavery, saying the plaintiffs had established no clear link to the companies they targeted.
The court still left the door open for further litigation.
But the ruling dismissed the case “without prejudice,” meaning the slave descendants seeking reparations from U.S. companies are allowed to file an amended complaint.
The lawsuit was first filed in U.S. District Court in New York in 2002 and later moved to Chicago. The suit names companies like the Lehman Brothers brokerage firm, Aetna Insurance and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, saying they or their corporate ancestors made money off slavery.
Lawsuits filed around the country seeking reparations for slavery have been combined into a single court action.
Litigating the Legacy of Slavery
This was back in March 31, 2002-
Last Tuesday, a group of lawyers filed a federal class-action lawsuit in New York on behalf of all African-American descendants of slaves. The lawsuit seeks compensation from a number of defendants for profits earned through slave labor and the slave trade.
This lawsuit is limited to FleetBoston, Aetna, CSX and other to-be-named companies. The broader reparations movement seeks to explore the historical role that other private institutions and government played during slavery and the era of legal racial discrimination that followed. The goal of these historical investigations is to bring American society to a new reckoning with how our past affects the current conditions of African-Americans and to make America a better place by helping the truly disadvantaged.
The Reparations Coordinating Committee, of which I am a co-chairman, will proceed with its own plans to file wide-ranging reparations lawsuits late this autumn. The committee is a group of lawyers, academics, public officials and activists that has conducted extensive research and begun to identify parties to sue and claims to be raised.
Although these precedents differ from a slavery-based reparations claim in that they involved classes of individuals who were both alive and easily identified, they nonetheless indicate government willingness to acknowledge past wrongs and remedy them. It is important that in each case the government waived its immunity from suit, thereby lifting the ordinary bar that prevents lawsuits against a sovereign.
Bring the government into litigation will also generate a public debate on slavery and the role its legacy continues to play in our society. The opportunity to use expert witnesses and conduct extensive discovery, to get facts and documentation, makes the courtroom an ideal venue for this debate.A full and deep conversation on slavery and its legacy has never taken place in America; reparations litigation will show what slavery meant, how it was profitable and how it has continued to affect the opportunities of millions of black Americans.
Litigation is required to promote this discussion because political accountability has not been forthcoming.
This was back in March 31, 2002-
Last Tuesday, a group of lawyers filed a federal class-action lawsuit in New York on behalf of all African-American descendants of slaves. The lawsuit seeks compensation from a number of defendants for profits earned through slave labor and the slave trade.
This lawsuit is limited to FleetBoston, Aetna, CSX and other to-be-named companies. The broader reparations movement seeks to explore the historical role that other private institutions and government played during slavery and the era of legal racial discrimination that followed. The goal of these historical investigations is to bring American society to a new reckoning with how our past affects the current conditions of African-Americans and to make America a better place by helping the truly disadvantaged.
The Reparations Coordinating Committee, of which I am a co-chairman, will proceed with its own plans to file wide-ranging reparations lawsuits late this autumn. The committee is a group of lawyers, academics, public officials and activists that has conducted extensive research and begun to identify parties to sue and claims to be raised.
Although these precedents differ from a slavery-based reparations claim in that they involved classes of individuals who were both alive and easily identified, they nonetheless indicate government willingness to acknowledge past wrongs and remedy them. It is important that in each case the government waived its immunity from suit, thereby lifting the ordinary bar that prevents lawsuits against a sovereign.
Bring the government into litigation will also generate a public debate on slavery and the role its legacy continues to play in our society. The opportunity to use expert witnesses and conduct extensive discovery, to get facts and documentation, makes the courtroom an ideal venue for this debate.A full and deep conversation on slavery and its legacy has never taken place in America; reparations litigation will show what slavery meant, how it was profitable and how it has continued to affect the opportunities of millions of black Americans.
Litigation is required to promote this discussion because political accountability has not been forthcoming.